Also, characters having to babysit something else is also pretty common such as a pet or older person (who is always senile). Even objects may apply in some cases (say a sensitive experiment). Anything that requires a lot of attention could fill this role.

Compare Parents for a Day, which appears to be about people being forced into taking care of a baby because of circumstances.

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Episode 2 of the Little Lulu anime focused on Lulu playing babysitter for Tubby while his parents are out for the day, much to Tubby's chagrin. To add insult to injury in Tubby's case, the situation is subsequently discovered by Iggy who finds it funny that Tubby is being babysat by Lulu, which angers Tubby so very much.

Detective Conan episode 566 basically has Conan taking care of a 2 year old. Silly since Conan is believed to be a six year old.

"Superman's Babysitter," a short comic story from Elseworlds 80 Page Giant which caused the whole run to be pulped because it shows baby Clark Kent in a microwave. (He's fine.) Later reprinted with no outrage.

One arc of the X-23 solo series focused on Laura taking care of Franklin and Valeria Richards for an evening. Given that the younger of the two inherited her father's brains and retained a three-year old's capacity for mischief....

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Calvin and Hobbes: The Series has "Two Loons and a Kid", wherein Calvin has to take care of his cousin Dana. Naturally, it doesn't go well. At all.

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The Golden Girls had one, the baby belonged to a friend of Dorothy's and they sang 'Mr Sandman' to get him to sleep. Then he got a fever and the doctor from Empty Nest did a Crossover visit to look at him. Blanche used it as a flirting chance,naturally.

One episode of Clarissa Explains It All had Clarissa baby sitting "Little Elsie", an absolute monster of a child, who makes it a point to make Clarissa's life a living hell. Clarissa manages to beat her by goading her into bragging about everything she's gotten away with and recording it.

Glee: In the episode Hairography Quinn takes up Kendra's offer of babysitting in order to test Puck's potential as a father. In true Glee fashion, they put the kids to sleep using a song.

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Not quite babysitting, per se, but two different arcs of Garfield strips had Garfield and Odie being pet-sat while Jon was out on a date with Liz. The first time, they were pet-sat by the horribly nearsighted Lillian while the second time had them under the care of the muscle-bound Greta.

Periodically, Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes would be babysat by Rosalyn, whom Calvin fears very greatly.

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One of the levels in Heavy Rain has Shelby taking care of a baby whose mom has just attempted suicide.

This was the plot point of the episode "Arthur Babysits", where he has to babysit the dreaded Tibble Twins. This episode is also notorious for marking the first appearance of Mrs. Tibble and the Tibble Twins.

A later episode "Crushed" focused on Arthur bonding with his babysitter Sally, due to the fact that they both love playing a video game called "Dark Bunny 6: Curse Of The Moomy".

In the Tom and JerryMGM shorts "Busy Buddies" and "Tot Watchers", Tom and Jerry have to continuously chase down and rescue the baby from trouble because the actual babysitter spends her time gossiping on the telephone.

In The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog episode "Baby-Sitter Jitters", Sonic and Tails wind up babysitting a trio of baby beavers -- Tails made the offer to the parents because Sonic "loves babes".

"Jack-Jack Attack" is a short on The Incredibles DVD showing what was happening with Jack-Jack & his babysitter while the rest of the family was having the adventure shown in the film.

In what was originally the very first episode, but was delayed to the first season finale, concerns Homer & Marge going out for the eveing while the kids are sat by what turns out to be "the Babysitting Bandit," who gets a babysitting job and then ties up the kids & steals everything from the house.

In another episode, 8-year-old Lisa offers her services as a babysitter, but the only ones who will take her up on it are Homer & Marge, who have her watch Bart and Maggie. Bart does a lot of stupid things mostly for the sake of being contrarian, which eventually lends him in the hospital (she even has to drive him there in a wheelbarrow because he prank-called them earlier), but she still gets work afterwards.

While healing from a work injury, Homer starts a Daddy Day Care-type in-home babysitting service.

In Regular Show, "Dead At Eight", Mordecai and Rigby has to babysit Death's son, Thomas, in order to save Muscle Man's soul.

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "Babysitter Blues" had Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger being babysat by an unnamed babysitter who also appeared as The Faceless like Christopher Robin's mother. Later on in the episode, Christopher Robin has to babysit Roo while Kanga goes out into the Hundred Acre Wood.

101 Dalmatians: The Series had two instances, which were paired up together. "Rolly's Egg-Celent Adventure" had Rolly taking care of Cornelia's eggs, which hatched at the beginning of the episode when he sat on them. "Wild Chick Chase" was about Spot having to babysit Peeps, a chick who kept getting into danger.

In the Pac-Man short "Hocus-Pocus Pac-Man", Ms. Pac-Man asks her husband to watch Pac-Baby while she goes shopping. Pac-Man tries to amuse Pac-Baby with some magic tricks, but one of them goes wrong and Pac-Baby seemingly vanishes.

The Little Rascals animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother with the Rascals so he can run an errand for his mother. Among other things, the baby climbs a tree and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples.

In the Tom And JerryMGM shorts "Busy Buddies" and "Tot Watchers", Tom and Jerry have to continuously chase down and rescue the baby from trouble because the actual babysitter spends her time gossiping on the telephone.

In the Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog episode "Baby-Sitter Jitters", Sonic and Tails wind up babysitting a trio of baby beavers -- Tails made the offer to the parents because Sonic "loves babes".

"Jack-Jack Attack" is a short on The Incredibles DVD showing what was happening with Jack-Jack & his babysitter while the rest of the family was having the adventure shown in the film.

"Superman's Babysitter," a short comic story from Elseworlds 80 Page Giant which casued the whole run to be pulped because it shows baby Clark Kent in a microwave. (He's fine.) Later reprinted with no outrage.

In what was originally the very first episode, but was delayed to the first season finale, concerns Homer & Marge going out for the eveing while the kids are sat by what turns out to be "the Babysitting Bandit," who gets a babysitting job and then ties up the kids & steals everything from the house.

In another episode 8-year-old Lisa offers her services as a babysitter, but the only ones who will take her up on it are Homer & Marge, who have her watch Bart. Bart ends up in the hospital, but she still gets work.

While healing from a work injury, Homer starts a Daddy Day Care-type in-home babysitting service.

Might this be worth expanding to, well, non babies? Also, I don't see the differentiation from Parents For A Day for children at least. U

Also, characters having to babysit something else is also pretty common such as a pet or older person(who is always senile). Even objects may apply in some cases(say a sensitive experiment). Anything that requires a lot of attention could fill this role.

One arc of the X-23 solo series focused on Laura taking care of Franklin and Valeria Richards for an evening. Given that the younger of the two inherited her father's brains and retained a three-year old's capacity for mischief....

The Golden Girls had one, the baby belonged to a friend of Dorothy's and they sang 'Mr Sandman' to get him to sleep. Then he got a fever and the doctor from Empty Nest did a Cross Over visit to look at him. Blanche used it as a flirting chance ,naturally. (Live action TV)

One episode of Clarissa Explains It All had Clarissa baby sitting "Little Elsie", an absolute monster of a child, who makes it a point to make Clarissa's life a living hell. Clarissa manages to beat her by goading her into bragging about everything she's gotten away with and recording it.

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